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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to install Nextcloud on FreeBSD 12

March 15, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

Nextcloud. Have you heard of it? That’s quite probable if you’re here. But, what is it, what is it? Some say it is a Google Apps replacement, some say it’s just a place to store your documents, some others just rely on it to share documents across the company and edit them just in time […]

Who am I?

April 15, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

My name is Albert Valbuena. I am a retired ski instructor and after a period of five years in the international department of a logistics company I recently moved in to the IT industry. It hasn’t been overnight and it is still work in progress. A few years ago I started a website called www.skireviewer.com. […]

How to install Docker on Ubuntu 18.04

February 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Operating System level virtualization is hitting hard now, as much as VM’s did just a few years ago. Docker is the popular framework for this matter, the new kid on the block so to speak. This is the hot spot now and if anyone wants to appear knowledgeable about system administration knowing this technology is […]

How to use Fail2ban with WordPress

September 24, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

In a previous article we did an install of Fail2ban on a FreeBSD server. This tool can help us to protect our WordPress install, independatly from if we are using the FAMP stack or the LAMP stack. As I mentioned on that article Fail2ban is a complementary tool to our firewall. It works by scanning […]

How to enable Geolocation in AWStats on FreeBSD 13.0

September 26, 2021 By Albert Valbuena

A few weeks ago, a guide explaining how to install AWStats on FreeBSD was released here in adminbyaccident.com. On that piece a basic install of AWStats is shown, however, a nice and important functionality of AWStats is missing. Knowing the location of visitors is a matter of interest, for the sake of it or because […]

How to manipulate and use USB drives in FreeBSD

March 4, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

If you are coming from the Windows, Mac or GNU/Linux world using USB drives on the desktop is a piece of cake. You plug it and it works. That’s it. Interoperability between the proprietary world and OSS (Open Source Software) has improved but there’s still a very palpable line. Just grab a new USB drive, […]

How to mirror disks on FreeBSD’s ZFS

May 11, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

This article is not going to be a long, detailed, specialized how to. I just wanted to share the ease and the fantastic quality of ZFS for a dead simple need I had. A spare box with a spare disk doing nothing could be repurposed as a file share box at home. Mirroring the two […]

How to install sudo in FreeBSD

April 25, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Sudo is a very useful application. It allows a regular user to perform tasks only reserved to the root account. There is lots of documentation about sudo and there is even a book about it called “Sudo Mastery”. If you need to investigate deep on this, buy it. Why do you need this? Well… Everyone […]

ARP spoofing attacks

April 15, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

ARP spoofing attacks are quite harming and they can easily constitute a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. They consist on the attacker sending ARP packets into the network the victim is located, typically redirecting traffic to the attacker’s machine. Once this is achieved the attacker can sniff all the traffic sent by the victim’s device and obtain […]

How to install ModSecurity 2 on FreeBSD

May 6, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

WARNING: A newer version of ModSecurity is available. The article to install ModSecurity 3 on FreeBSD can be found here. Will be published on March 1st, 2021. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider making a donation. Use this link to get $200 credit at DigitalOcean and support Adminbyaccident.com costs. […]

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